Connecticut 2011 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05693 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/20/2011

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5693
January Session, 2011  LCO No. 1663
Referred to Committee on Education
Introduced by:
REP. MOUKAWSHER, 40th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5693 

January Session, 2011

LCO No. 1663

Referred to Committee on Education 

Introduced by:

REP. MOUKAWSHER, 40th Dist.

AN ACT REQUIRING THE STATE TO PAY THE FULL COST OF EDUCATION FOR MUNICIPALITIES AND THE ELIMINATION OF ALL OTHER STATE AID TO MUNICIPALITIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to require the state to be responsible for the entire cost of education for municipalities and to eliminate all other state grants and aid to municipalities. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To require the state to pay for the entire cost of education and to eliminate all other state grants and aid to municipalities so that all other municipal expenditures will be financed by local municipalities principally through the local property tax and other revenue derived from existing local taxes, federal funds and fees.